Guangdong local food
Local dishes, ingredients and the stories behind them.

Chrysanthemum Three-Snake Thick Soup 传统菊花三蛇羹
Chrysanthemum Three-Snake Thick Soup (传统菊花三蛇羹) is a Cantonese thick soup of shredded snake meat and chicken, finished at the table with chrysanthemum petals.
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Cantonese Slow-Cooked Soup 老火靓汤
Cantonese Slow-Cooked Soup (老火靓汤), literally 'old-fire fine soup', is the long-simmered soup of Guangzhou (广州) and the wider Cantonese-speaking Guangfu (广府) region.
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Flat Rice Noodle Soup 粿条汤
Flat Rice Noodle Soup (粿条汤) is a rice-noodle soup of the Chaoshan (潮汕) region: wide strips of steamed rice sheet, known as guotiao (粿条), served in a beef-bone or pork-bone broth with meatballs or seafood.
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Shunde Hand-Flaked Fish Soup 顺德拆鱼羹
Shunde Hand-Flaked Fish Soup (顺德拆鱼羹) is a thick soup from Shunde (顺德) in Foshan (佛山), Guangdong, made from fish that has been fried and taken off the bone, cooked in a milky stock of the fish's own bones with vegetables, glass noodles and olive kernels.
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Sanjidi Pork and Offal Soup 三及第汤
Sanjidi Pork and Offal Soup (三及第汤) is a soup of pig's liver, pork small intestine and choice lean pork, cooked with wolfberry leaves (枸杞叶) or other greens, from Meizhou (梅州), Guangdong.
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Zijin Eight-Cut Pork Soup 紫金八刀汤
Zijin Eight-Cut Pork Soup (紫金八刀汤) is a soup of fresh pork cuts and offal from Zijin County (紫金县) in Heyuan (河源), Guangdong, a Hakka dish with more than 100 years of history.
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Yangshan Corn Porridge 阳山麦羹
Yangshan Corn Porridge (阳山麦羹) is a porridge of ground maize from Yangshan County (阳山县), Qingyuan (清远). The 'mai' (麦) of the name refers to maize, which local people call 'baomai' (包麦).
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Lianshan Big Glutinous Rice Dumplings 连山大汤糍
Lianshan Big Glutinous Rice Dumplings (连山大汤糍) are dumplings of glutinous-rice dough wrapped round a savoury or sweet filling, made in Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County (连山壮族瑶族自治县) in Qingyuan (清远), Guangdong.
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Pork Tripe and Pickled Mustard Soup 咸菜猪肚汤
Pork Tripe and Pickled Mustard Soup (咸菜猪肚汤) is pig's stomach simmered with white pepper and Chaoshan pickled mustard greens (咸菜), a pairing the Jieyang Daily names when it describes the pickles of Jieyang (揭阳).
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